What a heart-breakingly beautiful outpouring of hope and joy and human connection! There may never have been another time in history when so many of us from around the globe have been connected in spirit, in the same thought, at the same time.

I love that "Be the change you seek"-but it is so much easier when you can feel proud of yourself. I'm so overcome with emotion about the change in the United States. I've been teaching the 60's (social/political)in my classes for years...and the vision is alive in my brain. To see an African American First Family at first was at inicially a relef but now I am overcome with the truth that people can change. And yesterday, when I heard an American say, "He's not my president." I knew that even those who hang on to sufficating prejudice will one day be compelled to change.

I loved the part where the crowd sang "na-na-na-na good by!" to Bush as he departed. I was terrified that he and Cheney would pull some sort of coup at the last minute and remain in power. Of course, their "allies" are still in Washington DC and will do their damndest to destroy anything positive that Obama tries but I sure hope that he can prevail. The right-wing thieves have plundered the world long enough.